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...Berlin. It was the evening of April 14, 1943. Picking his way carefully between the maze of trip wires, the prisoner reached the camp fence, then turned around and defiantly called to a nearby SS guard: "Don't be a coward. Shoot, shoot." When the prisoner made a grab for the fence, the guard fired one bullet. It instantly killed the elder son of Joseph Stalin...
...sitting around a Michigan Avenue bar having a few, when this guy comes up and starts getting pretty obnoxious. I tell him, 'Get lost, creep,' and he looks at me and says, 'You know something, buddy? You're a -,' I reach across the table, grab his tie, give it a half-turn, and cork him one. Then I slam his head down on the table, and it breaks a couple of beer bottles. The last I see of him, he's crawling out the door on his hands and knees. Later I find...
Venus Examined assumes that a small, sleazy charitable foundation attempts to grab status in the world of tax-exempt altruism by sponsoring a sex research project. The researcher is bent on filming the orgasm in its natural habitat, using live volunteers and, among other teaching aids, a camera-equipped mechanical phallus. Experiment places its research project, supplied with similar equipment, in a crummy Ohio college. Faculty wives are among the volunteers. Neither Robert Kyle nor Patrick Catling is a hopelessly bad writer, sentence by sentence, although Catling wins the nomination for the silliest line of the year (so far): "Camilla...
Characteristically, Gitelson tried to refuse the award, instead recommended his team leader but warned Macalester to hurry. "He's come close to getting blown up a couple of times," he wrote, "so you'd better grab him while he's still available." But Macalester stuck by its choice of Gitelson, and decided to give it to him in absentia...
Those who are sensitive to hints of Harvard paternalism may be disturbed by the CEP's decision to make all who do not satisfy the requirement pass it with a full course during their freshman year. The rationale seems a little exploitative--grab those freshmen while they're young and callow and haven't learned to avoid studying until reading period. The language departments will be cornering a share of the market of freshman academic eagerness--with the effect of decreasing the range of courses from which many freshmen will be able to choose...